✅ SOLVED weird wooden whistle

[bravowhiskey]

I may have posted years ago, but never got any definitive answers.

I found this little wooden whistle in a pile of driftwood at Lake Grapevine (Tx) at least 25 years ago.

About the size of a 50 cent piece.

For an agitator (unsure of the proper terminology) the bb or what ever was placed inside the whistle to make it function, there is instead a very small dowel like piece of wood about the
diameter of a dble pencil lead and aprox 3/4 inch long.

When softly blown it sounds very similar to background cricket sounds one hears toward evening by most waterways.

I've never been able to find anything similar.

May be some kind of folk art item. Totally handmade.


Anyone know, or have any knowledge of it's origin.

 

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[Breezie]

You've answered your own question when you said: May be some kind of folk art item. Totally handmade.
Neat whistle! Breezie

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[DCMatt]

Brazilian Samba whistle



DCMatt

 

[bravowhiskey]

Brazilian Samba whistle

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DCMatt

Exactomundo, my friend. That is it exactly the same design. There are round holes drilled out and replugged on the ends just as the one I have.

Now for the $60K question (or two) ....

What is the history, or what do you know of the Brazilian Samba Whistle?

And how the heck did one end up in a pile o flotsam on (what was then just a quiet little lake NW of Dallas).?

Never mind about question 2, there are surely a million answers.

I am in your debt Sir, as I have wondered about this since picking it up.

Thankyou DCMatt.

bravo

 

[Reed Lukens]

Nope, it's a fish call whistle. It sounds like a drowning cricket.